Category: Python

In a previous post, we have looked at IBMs Q experience and the graphical composer that you can use to build simple circuits and run them on the IBM hardware. Alternatively, the quantum hardware can be addressed using an API and a Python library called Qiskit which we investigate in this post. Installation and setup … Continue reading Using Python to access IBMs quantum computers→

Until the nineties of the last century, quantum computing seemed to be an interesting theoretical possibility, but it was far from clear whether it could be useful to tackle computationally hard problems with high relevance for actual complications. This changed dramatically in 1994, when the mathematician P. Shor announced a quantum algorithm that could efficiently … Continue reading Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm→

Its been a few days since I started to play with Paperspace, and I have come across a couple of interesting features that the platform has - enough for a second post on this topic. First, GIT integration. Recall that the usual process is to zip the current working directory and submit the resulting file … Continue reading More on Paperspace Gradient→

So far, I have exclusively been using AWS EC2 when I needed access to a GPU - not because I have carefully compared the available offerings and taken a deliberate decision, but simply because I already had an EC2 account and know the platform. However, I though it would be interesting to try out other … Continue reading First steps with Paperspace Gradient→

In this post, I will discuss the general form of the EM algorithm to obtain a maximum likelihood estimator for a model with latent variables. First, let us describe our model. We suppose that we are given some joint distribution of a random variable X (the observed variables) and and random variable Z (the latent … Continue reading The EM algorithm and Gaussian mixture models – part II→

In the last few posts on machine learning, we have looked in detail at restricted Boltzmann machines. RBMs are a prime example for unsupervised learning - they learn a given distribution and are able to extract features from a data set, without the need to label the data upfront. However, there are of course many … Continue reading The EM algorithm and Gaussian mixture models – part I→

In the last few posts on the bitcoin blockchain, I have already extensively used Docker container to quickly set up test environments. However, it turned out to be a bit tiresome to run the containers, attach to them, execute commands etc. to get into a defined state. Time to learn how this can be automated … Continue reading Controlling Docker container with Python→

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Being a mathematician by education, I enjoy digging into topics from mathematics, computer science and physics – and even more, I enjoy when all this comes together. I hope that some of that curiosity comes across in my posts – have fun.